If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their problem is not that secularists are antidemocratic but that democracy is antiabsolutist.
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. - Ellen Willis
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
- Ellen Willis
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and soci… - Ellen Willis
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and soci…
Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence. - Ellen Willis
Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.
Music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated — as good rock ’n’ roll did — challenged me to do the same, and so, … - Ellen Willis
Music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated — as good rock ’n’ roll did — challenged me to do the same, and so, …
Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of re… - Ellen Willis
Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of re…
The goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and traumatic as possible. All this it has accom… - Ellen Willis
The goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and traumatic as possible. All this it has accom…
What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic. - Ellen Willis
What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.
On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with. - Ellen Willis
On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.
Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to be repres… - Ellen Willis
Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to be repres…
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